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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Apartment Therapy Room for Color 2011

Welcome Apartment Therapy readers! Thanks so much for all of your kind comments. As promised, here's some more pictures of my home office. I've also included a before picture, shocking isn't it?

It's really hard to take a picture of the whole room because I couldn't stand far enough back. I think I need a better lens for my camera.

I wanted to surprise my hubby with an original oversized Beatles Help movie poster which was twice the size of these ones. But alas the bidding surpassed my meager budget by hundreds. One day.

Yes, I'm obsessed with birds, and um it appears chevron! Really the pattern on the back of the bookcases doesn't stand out nearly as much as it looks in the photos. It's more of an accent. And because I merely ironed starched fabric on to the backs, it should be an easy update if I decide to change it.

I used cute sticky labels to add a bit of color and pattern to the generic Ikea Kasset boxes.

And here's a before picture. I'm deliberately keeping it small so you don't see how messy it is. Oh, who am I kidding?

Yikes, orange, faux painted walls. So from this you can see that I reused the desk, the chair, the blinds, and the drapes. I would like to get rid of the blinds but we need them for privacy.

Here's a tutorial on how I recovered the chair. It's not very extensive, because I didn't know that people would be that interested, but it's been repinned a million times on Pinterest. Next time I'll make sure that I do it step by step. And here's how I did the light shade.

BTW, found you through AT and have spent the morning scrolling back through your blog. I'm so inspired by your creativity! Thanks for sharing your lovely home! It is beautiful and so full of personality!

Thanks, Erin. It's very exciting. I'm currently 3rd, with quite a bit of catching up to do, but I've only told a handful of people that I've entered because I wanted to see how many unbiased votes I could get first. Judging by the fabulous response I think I have a good chance! Thanks for voting, don't forget to tell your friends ;)

Abby, the rug is from Urbanoutfitters.com. It's $74 and they have it in a few different colours. You can sometimes find coupons for Urban Outfitters online that will take either 10% off or give you free shipping, just google Urban Outfitters and coupon code.

I don't think I can say enough about Birds and Chevron pattern!!! Love Love Love... Makes me so HAPPY! you have a great eye! Where did the wall to wall carpeting come from, it looks like a sisal rug... Very pretty!

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A British Transplant living the American dream. A design blog obsessed, self-confessed Anthroholic with a love for all things pretty, patterned and just plain cool. Take a peek as I show you my home, my inspirations and my future design ideas.

Why Back on Festive Road?

This is a reference to a beloved British children's program, Mr Benn, from the 1970's (oops showing my age!). Mr Benn was a very traditional gentleman on the outside, but he had a great sense of adventure and imagination. He would visit a fancy dress shop (costume store) where he would try on an outfit in the changing room (dressing room), appear from behind the curtain, and be magically transported into a different land or time related to the costume. He would have his adventure and then return home "Back on Festive Road" where the children were still playing on his street and all was well. So my husband and I just adopted this saying whenever we returned from an adventure to our little home. This blog is all about adventure, home & family, with a little bit of fantasy thrown in.